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Geekbuying Reviews Summary

Geekbuying has a rating of 3.8 stars from 955 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Geekbuying most frequently mention customer service, fast delivery and full refund. Geekbuying ranks 13th among Electronics sites.

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Spain
1 review
1 helpful vote
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WARINING DO NOT BUY FROM THIS WEBSITE!
CUSTOMER SERVICE IS PRACTICALLY USELESS, I BOUGHT 2 PHONES THE 30TH OF JULY, NEVER RECIEVED MY OREDER, THEY REFUSE TO GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK, THEY KEPT SAYING WAIT PATIENTLY, AND LOOK NOW WHAT THEY SAY: Dear sir,

Thanks for your explanation. I can check that here is your tracking number: RF*******SG

2016-08-11 16:15 Arrival at Destination Post (Country: ES)

We can see that the parcel has arrived at the destination, Could you contact your local post office and pick up your parcel?

So sorry I am in China, it is not convenient for us to contact the overseas post office.

Thanks for your kind understand in advance.

Best regards

Silvia

I CHECKED WITH THE SPANISH POST OFFICE AND THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEGE OF ANY PACKAGE!

Date of experience: September 21, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

3726822
Hi sir
How are you?
Did you receive the parcel already? If you received it, pls let us know.
If not, we will urge our customer service check and investigate for you continuously
We will try our best to help you.
Wish you have a nice day.

Romania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SCAM AND THIEVES
September 7, 2016

I ORDER AND XIAOMI SPORT CAMERA AND ACCESORRIES AND THEY SEND ME JUST CAMERA, AFTER 16 DAYS (THEY SAY THAT DHL EXPRESS IS 3-5 BUSSINESS DAYS).

THEY RESPOND AND TELL ME THAT THE REST OF MY ORDER WILL BE SHIPPED, BUT THERE IS NO DATE OR TIME OR WHEN WILL DO THAT.

AVOID!

Date of experience: September 7, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir,
Sorry for the trouble.
The camera you ordered is located in our HK warehouse, and the accessories are located in our mainland of China, we have to ship them out separately.
And the camera was shipped to you by express delivery, the accessories will be sent out with registered airmail.
And after we sent them out, you can receive the tracking numbers.
Thanks for your kind understanding.
Wish you have a nice day!

Israel
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Dont risk your money!
August 25, 2016

Do not buy from this site!
Your purchase is not guaranteed in this site.
Unlike ebay or Aliexpress that have a money back guarantee for lost or damaged goods, This site has no money back guarantee!
If you do not receive your product - your money is gone!
They ask you to issue a letter from the post stating you have not received their parcel... Ha... Ha...

Date of experience: August 25, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir,
We are sorry for the trouble you met.
Would you mind telling us your order number? We will check and follow for you.
Here you can see: http://www.geekbuying.com/help/customer_service/declaration_and_tracking
If over than a month there is no news for your package, please go to the post office directly to see the package has arrived there or not. If not, try to file a case there and then send us the case number or proof (with a stamp) for the lost.
We can only resend you or refund you after we get the official paper stamped by your local post about the lost.
Really apologize for the inconvenience and thanks for your kind understanding.
Wish you have a nice day!

Cabo Verde
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Bad Suport
August 24, 2016

I made a wrong order since last thursday and i send an email to
*******@geekbuying.com, if i can cancel my order, and change it! But till now i didint have any answare, so what can i do?

I have my order in standby (unpaid) and i dont even know why is in that status, and the suport dont realy suport me in that way

Date of experience: August 24, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir.
We are sorry for the trouble.
Would you mind checking if the email you sent was without the title?
Our customer service will reply you in 24 business hours once they received it.
If the emails not helpful, you can find the online chat for help.
Available Hours
Mon to Fri. 9:00-18:30,GMT+8
20:30-3:30,GMT+8
Thanks for your support.
Have a nice day!

Egypt
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Basically i live in egypt, but i wanted to purchase a camera for my uncle that lives in France. I ordered a Xiaomi Yi camera, The US Edition because the china edition is $#*! compared to it.

Basically after a day they messaged me on my email asking for ID and Visa confirmation becaause their "risk department" needs them for our own "privacy aand safety." (they need prove that im like real or i own the visa) i gave them everything and after that they messaaged me back after waaiting for their reply for like 20hours+ they simply replied telling me the risk department declined the order and they will refund my money. ("the order is still in the UNPAID Section till now!") - Okay then, i have been waiting for my goddamn refund for 4 days and they still did not refund my $#*!ing money, my uncle will leave the country soon for business deals and they are $#*!ing us up with their ignoring (Messages/mails/live chat useless talks).

I have no $#*!ing idea what to do now like, they make me $#*!ing beg for my money back!, i'm seriously sorry about the swearing.

EDIT: Day 6, the order is not removed yet from the unpaid section somehow, i spoke to them in a livechat yesterday and told them if i didnt get my money i'll report their website because i have evidence of everything they kept on replying with please message the presales for your payment.

Today i spoke to them on their facebook page telling them i want my money now im not going to wait for more. They replied with my message has been sent to the customer service to look right into it. Still nothing happened till now. Lets see.

Date of experience: August 20, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

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Hi dear sir,
We are sorry for the trouble.
We checked your BIN country is Egypt, and the shipping country is France, it is considered to be high risk. We doubt your credit card had been stolen by others.
So our risk control department had to check your ID information, and then decline your payment.
We did not receive your payment, it is controlled by the issuing bank.
So we suggest you contact your cc company to check the estimate time of the refund money.
Thanks for your kind understanding.
Wish you have a nice day!

NL
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I tried to buy a phone with this company. They advertised a phone with a 72% discount. The first time they would not let me pay. I checked with visa. Turned out Geekbuying did not even try to collect payment. So I tried again. This time I paid the order, but found out Geekbuying confirmed a different phone. I e-mailed but did not receive an answer to the question the replied on. So I called everything would be OK, they would send the phone I ordered in the first place.

They however did not. Geekbuying e-mailed that the phones were the same. I e-mailed again explaining the differences. No reaction. Eventually the tod me again the phones are the same. I orderd a Zuk Z2 pro while they confirmed a Zuk Z2. These are very different phones. Eventually I called 3 times to China. Only then did they tell me there was a mistake. However they would e-mail me about it.

Geekbuying then e-mailed they made a mistake with pricing the phone. If I would pay $ 282,00 extra they would sent me the phone Almost twice what they advertised with. So no way. I had to e-mail several times, call three times to China before they admitted their mistake. In the Netherlands they sent you the phone for the price they advertised. Apparently customerservice is very different in China.

So Warning never buy from Geekbuying

As you can see Geekbuying now responded. Too bad, that from the moment I e-mailed them I gave them 2 options
1. Deliver the phone I wanted and ordered in the first place
2. Return my money.
Geekbuying just kept trying to sent me the phone I did not want and did not order.

Other thing, I explained with every contact the screensize isn't the only difference. The phone I want Zuk z2 pro supports the 4g frequencies I need in the Netherlands, the Zuk Z2 doesn't.

I am truly disappointed in the reaction of Geekbuying. If the they wanted to return the money, they could have done this immediately as I asked!

Date of experience: July 18, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hello sir,

Sorry about the issue. As this item is a new Model and our Product editor wrote ZUK pro 5.2 inch by mistake, but all the rest of the specification are the same except for the size difference. After we found out the mistake when we get the item in hand, we noticed customers by email and also adjust the on line specification.

In order to show our sincere apologize, we would like to give customer free power bank, or the other free gift around 15 USD.
Please consider, and we hope to get your kind understanding. Or we can give you the refund immediately.
Thanks for your patience and we wait for your reply.

Canada
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I purchased a phone from these guys almost a year ago, I sent it in for repairs three months ago and these guys are SNEAKY, and underhanded. I've never dealt with such an unprofessional company. I had to ship the product back right before the chinese new year and then wait 3 months for it to get back to me, which was the most ridiculous thing ever. A 2 month holiday? Are you serious? Then, once the product arrived, WITH scratches on the screen not caused by me, and the fact that I couldn't even login, I had to send it back a second time, wait a month for them to repair it, and I WAS PROMISED it would have the screen fixed, and for all the inconvenience they would send me a case with it, they did not do that either. Some of the worst, most unorganized technical support. After all of this, they offered me a 4% off coupon? Yeah because that's worth the trouble of 6 months of hassle. They didn't even refund me the money for the shipping, they refunded it to the original payment method, which I no longer have access to. They couldn't just send it to my PayPal? WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER! DO NOT BUY FROM GEEEKBUYING!

Date of experience: July 18, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hello sir,
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
We have consulted the issue with our manager, and our customer service will contact you,
We should be able to give you a satisfactory answer.
Thanks for your support and patience.
Have a nice day!

South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Ordered a phone with delivery 5-7 days with TNT.
After a few days, once they had my money in the bank, they tell me they can ship it with TNT and can offer CHINA POST 30-45 Days, *******@inbelievable. So I asked if they can deliver to my Hong Kong address and i will sort the shipping from there. OH NO! They don't know anyway to ship in their own country... absolute bollox! So now its 2 weeks and i am promised a refund and still waiting! NEVER ORDER FROM THESE IDIOTS

Date of experience: July 14, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir
So sorry for keeping you wait so long.
Could you please tell us your order number? We'll try our best to help you solve it.
And we are sorry for that there is no TNT in our HK warehouse, so we have to ship it out by registered airmail.
And if you want we send to your HONGKONG address, we can process for you.
Maybe there was a misunderstanding.
Hope the problem has been solved somehow.
Wish you have a nice day.
Sincerely,

India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bad Experience :(
July 2, 2016

After waiting a whole f#ckng month and item delivery is still processing, at start they will reply to your few mails and after that they start hiding, no reply. Very bad experience, poor service.

Date of experience: July 2, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir
So sorry for keeping you wait so long.
Could you please tell us your order number? We'll try our best to help you solve it.
Sometimes, we cannot ship you order out in time as the item you ordered is too popular to meet the large demand.
We may need time to get it from our supplier, and it will take a little long time.
Anyway, have a nice day!

Cameroon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very bad service
June 22, 2016

I made an order (#*******) there and the said the package was out... they sent me a fake DHL tracking code. I wrote te ask why this code was not walking on DHL website and they talk this may take some time but a week after nothing...
8 days after they sent me an email asking for additionnal $32 payment for shipping once all the card have been paid at checkout.
I simply asked them to refund me or I will start a paypal dispute.
DON'T DEAL WITH...

Date of experience: June 22, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

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Hi dear sir,
How are you?
We are here to confirm with you, did you receive the refund?
And we have to state that the 32$ fee is for remote fee, as your area is a remote area.
If you do not pay it, the DHL cannot send the parcel to you.
And you can also check on this internet to see if your area is a remote area: http://raslist.dhl.com/jsp/first.jsp
Wish you have a nice day!

Sweden
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The worst company
June 21, 2016

They have very slow shipping, a very long processing time. They block your chat, they are not accesible at all.
I have one time a package for 2 weeks in processing state.
They take your money and you see your products in months.
Be aware of this company that steals money from people.

Date of experience: June 20, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir.
We are sorry for keeping you wait so long.
But can you tell us your order number, so that we can check and process for you?
Anything else, feel free to contact our customer service, we are here to help you.
Wish you have a good day!

GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Yes the price is really good here, but the products and the customer services are really bad. I got a defected product and only got 50% refund and another product didn't arrive until almost 4 months after; they won't take any responsibilities for your lost. You are on your own. Good luck.

Date of experience: June 14, 2016
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A few years ago they where OK company. But now they are only SCAMMERS. I brought from their spanish site, thinking the product is in Europe. I was asked to pay 40 euro shipping tax. Paid for everything and i was expecting to get the product in 2-5 business days. But No, I sent a email to them asking what happens with my order, and they said they just sent the product and are sorry for the delay. After another 3 days I get another email asking for another 40 euro shipping and my ID.
I am really sure they don't need my ID to ship something from Europe to Europe (inside EU) and paying a total of 80 euro for shipping from Spain to Sweden I think is more than 7 times the normal shipping price for 7 days delivery.
DO NOT USE THEM THEY WILL SCAM YOU!

Date of experience: June 14, 2016
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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BUYER BEWARE
June 6, 2016

Horrible customer service.!

Wintel Pro W8 PRO Intel Z8300 Windows 10 4K MINI PC 2G/32G 802.11b/g/n LAN Bluetooth4.0 HDMI H. 265

Hardware is great. The little boxs runs smoothly.
WINDOWS 10 is not an authorized copy!
The hardware is great, I love it. Runs KODI like a charm. However it is advertised as a Windows 10 mini PC with Windows. It has a "copy" of Windows on it. It works for about 3-4 weeks and then you constantly get messages that you do not have an authorized copy of windows. Geekbuying will not help me with this at all. They admitted it is a copy and not authorized. However they will not get me an authorization code. Their offer to me is a 5.00 coupon and a 5.00 refund! I was sold a PC that was suppose to have an authorized OS on it. It doesn't. This is false advertising at it's best! Geekbuying has lost my business as well as so many more that I will tell about this. Also Microsoft will be hearing about this as well.

Date of experience: June 6, 2016
Nigeria
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I ordered a phone UMI Touch from geekbuying for over two weeks now. No communication, nothing. The live chat link does't even work. No response to email. I checked the tracking site and it says that my order has been processed in my country Nigeria, but I haven't received any phone. These guys are scam artistes. $146 gone, just like that. There should be an international regulatory body that can shut down online scam artistes like Geekbuying.com

Date of experience: May 25, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir,

We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Could you please inform us your order number so that we can check for you?
The Available Hours of the live chat is:
Mon to Fri.
9:00-18:30,GMT+8
20:30-3:30,GMT+8
And please send the email to those email address:
[email protected]
About payment failure, invalid coupon, duplicated orders, cancel orders, report error
[email protected]
About change address/shipping method, order status, tracking information, custom clearance♦support_aftersale@geekbuying. Com
About missing item, wrong item, defective item, item problems
We are trying our best to satisfy our every valued customers, hope you have a nice day!

Thank you!

Minnesota
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Pretty good overall
April 27, 2016

After an awful experience at gearbest.com i tried geekbuying which had some bad reviews I found later. But I got the equipment (cube iwork10) and all worked well.
Get the shipping insurance, as it's cheap and that tends to make sure things work out better in past experiences with out of country importing.
There was a slight delay that they informed me of albeit without details of exactly how long. It turned out to be a couple days.
I used the wxpedited shipping and DHL got the package here fast, 3business days, seriously! I was amazed.
The product was wrapped in foam for extra protection, (maybe because I got the shipping insurance? Maybe that's there standard way.)
That gave me a good feeling about these guys.
The reason not a 5 are due to the delay when coupled with no approx of time.

However YMMV, 1 shipment does not make a pattern but good prices and this transaction worked out.

Date of experience: April 26, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hello dear sir.
Thanks for your favor.
We are sorry for the delay as sometime the factory cannot offer the enough stock to us as they check there are some bugs in the items, they have to recheck it.
Please be at ease, if you have some questions about the items or our services, feel free to contact us, we are here to help you.
Have a nice day!

Egypt
1 review
2 helpful votes
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After the much talked about teams pay phone that you purchased now 28 days has not been the arrival of the request to the towns and they want me to wait three months, I advise you not to purchase from this site

Date of experience: April 18, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Dear sir,
This is the tracking number for your RC912771964NL, and you can see it is already there in your country

2016-05-03 22:32 EGYPT, PARCELS TRAFFIC CENTRE RAMSIS, Deliver item (Inb), محمود صلاح
2016-05-03 22:06 EGYPT, PARCELS TRAFFIC CENTRE RAMSIS, Return item from customs (Inb)
2016-05-03 01:49 EGYPT, PARCELS TRAFFIC CENTRE RAMSIS, Receive item at location (Inb)
2016-04-27 23:24 EGYPT, PARCELS TRAFFIC CENTRE RAMSIS, Record item customs information (Inb), Communication authority inspection
2016-04-27 23:24 EGYPT, PARCELS TRAFFIC CENTRE RAMSIS, Send item to customs (Inb)
2016-04-21 01:43 EGYPT, PARCELS TRAFFIC CENTRE RAMSIS, Receive item at location (Inb)
2016-04-20 20:34 EGYPT, CAIRO AIRMAIL TRAFFIC CENTER, Insert item into domestic bag
2016-04-20 19:57 EGYPT, CAIRO AIRMAIL TRAFFIC CENTER, Receive item at office of exchange (Inb)
2016-03-31 03:15 Netherlands (the), AMSTERDAM E INTERNATIONAL MAIL, Send item abroad (EDI-received)
2016-03-26 06:03 Netherlands (the), AMSTERDAM E INTERNATIONAL MAIL, Receive item at office of exchange (Otb)
2016-03-26 06:03 Netherlands (the), AMSTERDAM E INTERNATIONAL MAIL, Insert item into bag (Otb)
Origin Country - Tracking Consuming: 757 ms
2016-05-03 10:32 The item has been delivered successfully
2016-04-20 07:57 The item has been processed in the country of destination
2016-04-20 07:57 The item has arrived in the country of destination
2016-03-31 11:20 The item is on transport to the country of destination
2016-03-26 18:03 The item is at the PostNL sorting center
2016-03-22 17:30 The item is ready for shipment
2016-03-20 09:05 The item is pre-advised

Thanks a lot and if you still have any question, please feel free to contact our service.

Greece
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I bought a tvbox from GeekBuying and i had an issue with it.

I send the item to them at first days of December 2015 and until today 14 april 2016 they spoof me.
Ι have send them over 15 emails, they say different excuses and the don't send it back. The result is that i have paid for an item and 5 months now they fool me and i don't know when and if i get it back.

5 months of lies

Date of experience: April 14, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hi dear sir,
Could you please inform us your order number so that we can check for you?
We'll try our best to solve the problem.
Thanks a lot!

California
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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3/22/16 Moral of the story is use Paypal. These guys wouldn't respond until I went back to paypal asking for a refund. Bingo. Got their attention. Paypal returned my money.
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Its a shame that a company that actually was able to tell me that they had the item I wanted in stock (as apposed to other sites that lied about that) shipped me a great looking, and beautiful new computer only to not follow up with me by email. I have repeatedly tried to contact the company but they have not replied. They did send one reply a week after I sent them a request... but thats it. I dont have time to wait a month or two for them to get their act together. I need that computer now - I am on my way to purchase at Best Buy so i can walk into a store and talk to a human. This buying from China is BS. They just dont get what it means to have a bad reputation by not having good service.

Date of experience: March 11, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

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Hi dear sir.
We checked we have received the item you returned, and the paypal have refund to you.
Anything else, feel free to contact us.
And hope you have a nice day!

Florida
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Bought a chuwi 8 inch tablet from geekbuying. The tablet came in real good cond. But would not work, sent back to them at my cost, according to the geekbuying policy. I should have received a refund,,, never happened! Now they have my money, my postage and the chuwi tablet. Beware of this company... In all fairness i received the tablet back after 2 months and it works fine. The problem seems to be when the company sends a bad product the returns are really awful...

Date of experience: March 7, 2016
Geekbuying C. Geekbuying Rep
over a year old

Hello dear sir
We are so sorry that, could you please inform us your order number so that we can check for you?
Always, we'll refund to you once received the tablet you returned.
Anything else, feel free to contact our service.
Nice day!

From the business

Geekbuying was founded in 2012 to create a platform that genuinely puts the customer first. Since our inception, we have become one of the leading E-commerce platforms selling various consumer electronic gadgets. Here at Geekbuying, you can expect to find products you'll love, superior service, and fast global shipping!
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